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18:44 - The People Have Spoken
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/safaritabbedbrowsing.html
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It would appear that "Nick DePlume" of Think Secret has gotten his hands on a build of Safari that addresses the single biggest shortcoming complained about by Mac users accustomed to Chimera and Mozilla: tabbed browsing.
In beta 62 of Safari, which has yet to be posted for download, tabbed browsing can be activated via the hidden debug menu. Once turned on, pressing Command-T opens a new tab. In Safari, tabs are lined up in their own bar below the toolbar, much like the bookmarks bar. When the bookmarks bar is shown, the tabs are presented below it.
Sounds as though there will be several more internal betas before we get this feature in the flesh; some other items, like form autocomplete, are reported as being not-exactly-ready-for-prime-time as yet. But this is another good sign that Safari is being designed with all the consumer attention of an open-source project and all the tightly-scheduled, well-funded oomph of a commercial one. It's a brave new world out there...
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